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Joan Collins and Pat Dunne are the local Area Representatives in the Walkinstown, Cherryfield, Perrystown and Kimmage Areas. Between them they received over 5000 first preference votes in the 2004 Local Elections. More
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Born in London, England, Joan Collins has been in loads of films and series, with guest shots in plenty of other shows. She is a rada trained Actress and Author who lives for the moment.
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From All Movie Guide: British actress Joan Collins, daughter of a London theatrical booking agent, made her showbiz bow in a production of The Doll's House -- in a male role. She was 9 years old then, and it would be the last time there would be any doubt as to her gender. With the sort of glamorous countenance that prompted people to ask "why aren't you in movies?", Collins first appeared before the cameras in a small role as a beauty contestant in Lady Godiva Rides Again (1953). She made an auspicious American debut as an Egyptian temptress in Land of the Pharoahs (1955). This assignment led to a contract with 20th Century-Fox, where despite a few good dramatic parts (Girl on the Red Velvet Swing [1955] in particular) and an adroit comic characterization in Rally Round the Flag, Boys (1958), she was written off by critics as decorative but nothing more. She was perilously close to "perennial starlet" status in the 1960s, and by the 1970s was the uncrowned queen of "B" pictures.
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Well before Joan Collins played scheming 'super-bitch' Alexis Carrington on TV's Dynasty (1981-89) she appeared in some low-budget British movies. But in 1951, she caught the attention of Hollywood when she appeared in the Howard Hawks epic Land of the Pharaohs (1955). Primarily cast as a sultry, brunette siren, she was in several films in the late '50s and early '60s, including The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955) and Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (both included this boxset). In the '60s and '70s she worked in many low-budget horror films and in some television (she was the guest star in 1967's "City on the Edge of Forever" one of the most celebrated episodes of the original Star Trek series). She is often referred to as "The British Open" because of her permissive sexual lifestyle although claims to have turned down Frank Sinatra, Robert F. Kennedy, Darryl F. Zanuck and Dean Martin.
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The daughter of the prominent theatrical agent Joe Collins and his wife Elsa, Joan Collins was born in London and made her London stage debut at the age of nine in Ibsen’s A DOLLS HOUSE at the Arts Theatre. She went on to become a student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art when she was 16 and after only 18 months was signed to an exclusive contract by the Rank Organization.
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Joan Collins is internationally renowned for her roleof Alexis Carrington Colby in DYNASTY, one of the most highly rated evening TV dramas of all time. For eight years, viewers were treated to a weekly dose of Alexis' elaborate schemes for power, money and love, during the course of whichJoan created one of televisions most popular characters, and etched a place for herself in Hollywood history. DYNASTY continues to be aired worldwide. In 1997, Alexis was reunited with Aaron Spelling and guest-starred in several special episodes of hisnighttime drama PACIFIC PALISADES and in 2006, she reunited with the cast of DYNASTY in CAVIAR AND CATFIGHTS: THE DYNASTY REUNION.
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